Which is a pretty good definition of "trolling", except that you would want to keep your posts to a minimum and to rely on the opinionated to keep the thread you started going. Course, Halmyre would be scoring the points on this thread.
Oh, anyone can be a troll, it's not even especially rare. Being one without realising it is also very common. More usual, though, is being the victim of a troll. The more cleverly it is done, the less obvious it is to the victims.
I still have fond memories of the best troll I've seen, where a crosspost said something grammatically badly about "this would be a good group if it wasn't for the spoilers in it, and you know who you are!"
Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5397On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:47:07 +0100, "Mark Hewitt" Only if you break it down to being "steering, braking and accelerating", in which case those...
Beautiful job, in almost every group, there were several people who were quick to deny they were a spoiler, and to attack the poster, and so forth, and the threads rolled on for ages generating tons and tons of troll points from a single post. There was talk, again, of outlawing cross posts in alt.troll.
The last one we had in here* was quite artful, a rant about cyclists wearing black at night, crossposted to alt.cycling.green.tofu and rec.driving.extreme.urban just to ensure plenty of, er, diversity.
(* - or not, depending on where "here" is for you...)
